ELENA'S POVNobody spoke for a long moment after I set the phone down.Then Viviana said, "Show me."I slid the phone across the counter toward her. She read it standing up, one hand on the counter for balance, her face doing nothing while her eyes moved through the words. When she finished she set it down carefully and looked at the wall behind me for exactly three seconds."She used the emergency provision," she said. "Article Nine of the vampire council charter.Immediate threat to supernatural stability." Her jaw tightened. "She framed you as the threat.""The pregnant woman hiding in a mountain cabin," I said. "Very threatening.""The Nightshade heir carrying the Blood Sovereign," Seraphine corrected from the doorway. "To Morgana's faction, that's the most threatening thing in existence." She crossed the room and picked up the phone herself, read it once, set it back down. "The execution order is real and it's binding. Every vampire with council allegiance is now legally obligat
Zuletzt aktualisiert : 2026-03-26 Mehr lesen